Journal-box



(No Model.)

` W. H. KENDALL. I

JOURNAL BOX.

No. 568,313. Patented Sept. 22, 1896.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM II. KENDALL, OF CLEVELAND, OIIIO.

JOURNAL-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,313, datedSeptember 22, 1896. Application led February 7, 1896 Serial No. 578,317.(N0 mOdeLl To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. KENDALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Journal-Boxes, of whichthe following is a specification, reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improved journal-box in which the oil isdrawn from oilreceptacles to the journal by suction, whereby the use ofcotton-waste and other similar packing is dispensed with, thus avoidingdanger and delay from hot boxes.

The invention will first be described in connection with theaccompanying drawings and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of my improved journal-box with the cap-plate removed. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe cap-plate. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of my improvedj ournal-boX, showing a journal therein and the cap-plate in place.

Referring to the drawings,A are abutments, securely bolted to abase-plate B, as at l.

C C are oil-receptacles made of any suitable metal, the outer wall 2 ofeach receptacle being vertical and adapted to bear against the abutment,while the inner wall 3 has a slight slope for a purpose hereinaftermentioned.

D is a bearing-block of any suitable material, preferably of Babbittmetal, in which the journal is designed to rest. This block rests on thebase-plate B, and its sides 4 slope to conform to the slope of the innerwalls 3 of the oil-receptacles. By this construction the receptacleswill be securely held in place between the abutments and thebearingblock when the parts are assembled.

E is an axle-journal.

F is a cap-plate adapted to fit over the journal and also cover theoil-receptacles, it being provided near each end on its under side witha depending spring-lip 5, designed when the cap-plate is in position tobear frictionally against the outer wall of the receptacle C, wherebythe cap-plate is held in place.

The inner wall 3 of each receptacle terminates a short distance belowthe cap-plate, leaving a narrow recess 6, through which oil may reachthe journal. l

In operation, assuming oil to have been placed in each receptacle, therevolution of the journal will cause a partial vacuum in thereceptacles, and thereby the oil will be drawn from the receptacles tothe journal during the revolution of the latter, the direction ofrevolution `of the journal, so far as the vacuum is concerned, beingimmaterial.

It will be seen that by this construction and the mode of operation nocotton-waste, wicking, or other packing is necessary, nor is thereliability to any overheating of the journal-box.

While I have shown and described an oilreceptacle on each side of thebearing-block, the use of but one such receptacle located on one sideonly of the block would be clearly within my invention. I prefer,however, to use two.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a journal-box, the combination, with a base-plate and twoabntments removably secured thereto, of a bearing-block resting on thebase-plate and adapted to receive a journal, an oil-receptacle on one orboth sides of said block, and a cap-plate for the receptacle orreceptacles and journal, the receptacle or receptacles being each formedwith a recess opening directly on the journal through which recess oilmay be conveyed to the journal in the revolution of the latter,substantially as described.

2. In a journal-box7 the combination, with a base-plate and abutmentsremovably secured thereto, of a bearing-block resting on said plate andadapted to receive a journal, one or more open-top oil-receptacles heldin place by the bearing-block and abutment or abutments, and a cap-plateadapted to cover the journal and receptacle or receptacles, eachreceptacle having at the upper end of its inner wall a lateral recessopenin g directly on the journal through which recess oil may pass tothejournal.

8. In a journal-box, the combination, with abase-plate and abutmentsremovably secured thereto, of a bearing-block resting on the base-plateand adapted to receive a jour-` nal, the sides of said block having aslight Slope, two oil-receptacles, one on each side of thebearing-b1ock, the inner Wall of each receptacle having a slopecorresponding to the slope of the sides of the bearing-block, so as tobe securely held thereby, and a cap-plate for the receptacles andjournal having tWo downwardly extending spring lips7 each adapted tohear frictionally against the outer Wall of each receptacleJ the innerWall of each receptacle terminating a short distance bcloW thecap-plate, forming narrow openings, through which oil may be drawn tothe j onrnal, substantially as described, and for the purposes stated.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM II. KENDALII. Vitnesses: LEVI C. Knorr, R. M. WEIBLE.

